Diced Pineapples

Looking at the Skateboard Mag the other day, this little Donovan Piscopo interview, and got to fantasizing about tricks. As you do. Folks like Jake Johnson and Wes Kremer recently have been out there taking the wallride to strange new places — what if you were to take Donovan’s grind here, lose the bank underlying the ledge, and a dude just did a wallride into this trick*? Sort of like a pool coping scratcher maybe, but you’d think a body could put their mind to it and lock both 58’s atop the corner for a little bit anyway. Thinking it over a while I started to wonder if I’d actually seen somebody do a trick like this at some point, in a photo or video. Unfortunately due to severely limited capacity and general neglect, my brain is never going to have the cataloging capabilities of a Police Informer or a Chrome Ball or a Vert-Is-Dead. Instead I cast myself upon the mercy of yall. Can anybody recall somebody wallriding up into a ‘vert’ scratcher grind like this, without a bank to start from?

24 Responses to “Diced Pineapples”

Tommy Guerrero in Non-Fiction, I believe. He’s awesome, he recently e-mailed me back about a music question I asked him.

Can I just say that Gonz’s part in Non-Fiction is, to me, arguably his best part. Not taking anything away from Video Days, but the NF part is more appealing. It never fails to get me inspired to skate.

Yeah, I aree with AO the biggest one I’ve seen was from Janoski. He does a switch wallride to switch crooks on a 3′ high red ledge located on Haight st in San Francisco. I couldn’t remember where I saw the footage, but it was within the last year.

that shit that janoskis been running for the last few years is not a switch wallride it’s more of a fakie wallride bonk to switch crook. he gets em pretty high up there, but what he’s doing is hella easier than a legit jake johnson style swithc wallride with all four wheels on the wall at all times. it’s like all those dudes who can’t really wallride but can do these half assed nose ride things. quim and gonz make em look official though.